Go beyond planning for change
to being the change --
together
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As a leader, do you feel like standard practices and meeting norms are outdated, frustrate people and get unsatisfying results?
Jen supports leaders and groups looking for effective ways to take themselves, their work, and their organizations or networks beyond what is often imagined possible.​
Instead of creating static plans that don't evolve with the times, Jen supports groups to listen, quickly find common ground, strengthen relationships for the tough conversations, co-create strategy that lives within them (not just a binder), and to learn, adapt, and improve together.
Jen works with governments, tribes, nonprofits, and multi-sector collaboratives facing challenges where traditional approaches have stalled.
Recent projects include climate resilience strategy across a California county, regional tribal economic development collaboration, co-creative state master planning with remote rural communities, and organizational culture and strategy transformation.
Whether navigating complex power dynamics, bridging diverse interest groups, or turning conflict into breakthrough collaboration, Jen creates conditions where impossible goals become achievable results.
Jen has lived, led, and studied grassroots, organizational, collaborative, and systemic change for three and a half decades.
She puts her diverse background and degrees to work in service of motivated, pragmatic innovators driven to imagine, co-create, and test possibilities to get transformative results.
We become better humans, leaders, teams, organizations, networks, and communities while we work -- rather than go to trainings disconnected from our day-to-day work.
Jen applies her savvy and rich experience from land management, project funding and development, team-building, leadership and capacity-building, rural and Native communities engagement, strategic organizational evolution, relational organizing, community philanthropy, network development and coordination, human-centered design... and more, to every project.
Client Testimonials
WHY BOLD LEADERS ARE
REINVENTING HOW THEY WORK
Traditional planning, engagement, and collaborative approaches often fail in today’s complex operating environment.
Groups that co-create shared purpose and strategy to operate adaptively get next-level results.
Complex socio-environmental challenges exceed familiar leadership, strategic, and collaboration constraints. ​​
Leaders need to learn and practice new mindsets, tools, and norms to successfully navigate what has become standard operating turbulence. ​
The way we work needs to simultaneously improve our ability to collaborate, adapt, and get results -- while we work.
Consider: when best-laid plans go sideways or strategy remains shelved, is it usually due to technical elements, or human elements?
We often let urgency drive a focus on the technical, missing opportunities to transform teams, organizations, and communities.
One-off retreats or public/collaborative workshops often lack productive outcomes.
Groups that iterate co-creation of agreements, strategy, experiments, co-own and LIVE the plan... far beyond just giving input to it shelving it.
Jen has lived, led, learned, experimented, and adapted her way through the challenges we face. She loves supporting innovative leaders to do the same.